We are grateful that my predecessor took the right initiative – ObasekiOkomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.

PNG land grabbers could potentially face International Criminal CourtReport finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.

Hypocrisy and friends in high places in the Republic of CongoEarthsight report exposes the secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture which are threatening the Congo Basin’s forests. This post details findings from The Republic of Congo.

Harvard bet the farm in Brazil and lost. The university, which invested at least $150 million in a mega farm project in country's northeast, is now exiting, according to people familiar with the matter.

Park Agrotech, which is part of the Skylark Group, has established a poultry farm, feed mill and a fruits, vegetables and cereals farm on 4,000 acres of land at Lake Volta in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

The president of the African Development Bank says that this year it will launch the Africa Investment Forum as a transactional platform to leverage global pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in African agriculture

Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.

China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad and already directed interest to the French wheat. In France, the authorities learned lately about the acquisition of 1,700 hectares of cereal crops in central France thanks to clever attorney’s tricks.

A Chinese tycoon's purchase of vast wheat fields in France highlights China's increasing acquisition of foreign farmland as the Asian giant seeks to keep up with its massive population's growing appetite.